May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 529

Price Realized: $ 612
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TWAIN, MARK. In Ye Closet of Ye Virgin Queene A. D. 1601. Printed at ye citie of brotherly love. Not to be sold. A Tudor Conversazione. By ye Social Fireside, In ye yeare of our Lord's Grace MDCI. A. Porno Grapho, Editor. Copper-plate etchings by J. P. Nuyttens; initial letters illuminated (in reverse) on gold backgrounds. 4to, pigskin with five raised spine bands, title in gold, blind embossed fillets bordering covers, gilt-embossed Tudor crowns in corners, blue medallion with arms and crown in center of covers, inner dentelles similarly repeat the rule and crown design, watered silk endpapers, slight rubbing at head of spine. Printed on Japan vellum. [Chicago]: Privately printed for the Flatulence Society, [1939]

Additional Details

number 150 of 150 copies. Not included in the Franklin J. Meine bibliography of editions of this work. There was a similar work with etchings by Nuyttens and a similar imprint, but printed in Pittsburgh 1916.